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Lineal descendant, Lineal descendant would mean the offspring of lawful marriage and not offspring of union which is not that of husband and wife. The plain meaning of lineal descendant is one who is in the blood stream of the ancestral such as child or grandchild of the remotest degree. There cannot be any other meaning of this word, Sunderlal Chourasiya v. Jejila Chourasiya, AIR 2004 MP 138. [see Hindu Succession Act 30 of 1956, s. 8; Succession Act 39 of 1925, ss. 107, 109]The term 'lineal descendants' is not restricted to male descendants. But is wide enough to include all descendants, male and female, Bhimnath Missir v. Sm. Tara Dai, AIR 1929 PC 162.The terms 'lineal consanguinity' and 'lineal descent' have been defined in Whartoris Law Lenicon, 14th Edn., Second India Reprint 1994 as: 'Lineal Consanguinity, that relationship which subsists between persons descended in a right line, as grandfather, father, son, grandson. Lineal Descent, the descent of an estate from ancestor to he...
Descendibility
The quality of being descendible capability of being transmitted from ancestors as the descendibility of an estate...
descend
descend : to pass by inheritance de·scen·di·bil·i·ty [-sen-də-bi-lə-tē] n de·scend·ible [-sen-də-bəl] adj ...
descendant
descendant also de·scen·dent [di-sen-dənt] n : a blood relative of a later generation ...
Descendant
Descendent...
Descendent
Descending falling proceeding from an ancestor or source...
Descender
One who descends...
Descendible
Admitting descent capable of being descended...
Descendingly
In a descending manner...
Ascendant or descendant
Ascendant or descendant, in relation to a person belonging to a matriarchal society, means the person who corresponds to such expression in accordance with the law of succession in force in such society. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2 (c)]...
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